Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-26
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81 have no such influence ow
her and do not wish to have. -
You wonder that she is nearly dis
tracted with grief at being driver
from pillar to post like this, when in
one short hour her husband will b
dead? She has not seen him for fy
days, and now they deny her the sa
cred right of last goodbye; why
the worst despotisms in Europe ar,
not SO bad rs that !"
At this burly. brutaI-looking de-
tectlve in citizens clothes said, "See
here, young woman; you shut up or
We will send you off in the wagon 7
"What Mustn't say even thi
much in free country?' | asked i
surprise.
"No, You can't" he growled with
fierce frown.
And ! suppose this constituted mN
oilense; this was my "harangue to)
the people on the Streets"
And so. INTO the patrol we were
hustled--a heartbroken wife and
mother, two innocent fearful chill
dron, and their friend, and carried
to II police station. The "polite
officers" did not perhaps go out of
their way to be brutal or rough, but
were about as courteous" as so
many wooden men moving about like
machines.
Far from being seated in arm
chairs in q comfortable Office, we
were shut up in dark, dirty stone
cells, Mrs. Parsons and her children
in one, myself in another. 8
There we--American women with
the blood of revolutionary fore,
fathers coursng in our yeins-wer,
stripped to the skin and searched by
IN ignorant matron under the orders
Of foreign officers who could not
speak the English language correctl
Even the children weeping W
fright were undressed AID search
The only word sai,h to-
woman who ran her fingers thR.
my hair, through the hens one
skirts, and the gathers of my un.
garments, wos: "What do yob-
pect to find ?" le
81 don't know" she sirhpertC
"thls is my duty
She changed the iron doors behind
her, finally, and we were left alone.
We could hear one another's voices
but could not see each other. And
in those gloomy underground cells,
we passed those terrible, ANXIOUS
hours of Friday, November II, lSo"
God knows her lot would have !,
bitter enough, in her own copc-
able home with loving, sympatill,
friends at her side to supportav-
that awful time. But, wEG.
dwell upon the reality-the pl
of that devoted wife in such
at such al hour?
At few minutes past twelyev-
matron came and said coldly: sed
all over" and left us. aois
Not soul came and askeu-
bereaved woman if they coulded
her to even u cup Of cold TER
And !, the one friend nearies,
could only sit shivering, witso-
face pressed close to the crueo-
bars, listening to her low desI he he
moans, as helpless as herself.
At three o'clock Capt. Schaac
came down and asked how long v
had been there, hypocritically Q
pressed sorrow that we had BET
locked up, and magnanlmously
Grated us. Every friend who, L.
called to inquire after us had beel
sent away, without "A word of inform
alton as to our whereabouts or OF
welfare, and we went home bclieyir
no one had concerned themsels
about us, whereas many anxion
friends had called, and tried to reac
us. And thus as it was that v
organized authority was judic
numbering the ''voce Of the ps
the wife and children were
up in dungeon that no unI tor tor
scene might mar the smoothnur.
the proceeding. Where isi Dyer
parallel in history? Only F. is
State where dying men are fol aree 1a
to speak a few last ,Hrds, can Chi.
such scene be possk :.
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